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ENG 4131

Literary Theory: Special Topic

3 units

Fall 2026 · Touching Grass: New Material Ecopoetics in Canada

Topics

  • Material ecopoetics
  • Multimodal poetry
  • Ecological crisis

Readings

  • Xenotext, Book I
    Christian Bok · Possible text; source says may include
  • Decomp
    Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott · 2013 · Possible text; source says may include
  • Comma
    Jennifer Still · 2014 · Possible text; source says may include
  • Anatomic
    Adam Dickinson · 2018 · Possible text; source says may include
  • Beholden
    Rita Wong and Fred Wah · 2018 · Possible text; source says may include
  • Parasitic Oscillations
    Madhur Anand · 2022 · Possible text; source says may include
  • Selvage
    Kate Siklosi · 2023 · Possible text; source says may include
  • Conversations with the Kagawong River
    Sophie Anne Edwards · 2024 · Possible text; source says may include
  • Selected works by angela rawlings; titles unspecified.
  • Don MacKay, “Baler Twine,” from Vis a Vis (Gaspereau Press, 2001).
  • Wendy Wheeler, “Perfused with Signs: biosemiotics and human sociality,” from The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics, and the Evolution of Culture (Lawrence & Wishart, 2006).
  • Jane Bennett, “The Force of Things,” from Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke UP, 2010), pp. 1–19.
  • Lynn Keller, “In More than Words: Ecopoetic Hybrids with Visual and Musical Arts,” Humanities; source citation: Vol. 15 (7), pp145.
Sources